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What you are reading on this thread is the result of many years of runaway rules catering to the manufacturers of midget engines, parts and tires. Thus just a few pockets of midget racing that still exist. And a fight over the few cars that are left out there to compete or have the bucks to compete. Change the rules so you don't have to be a multi-millionaire to race and you'll see plenty of cars. For those that want to review what I have suggested as a solution to all of this, reread the IOW thread "More midget races cancelled" that probably set a new world's record for hits on IOW. Apparently the midget orgs are ignoring that thread and it's business as usual so don't look for anything to change in 2012. More of the same... low car counts and races being cancelled and more disgusted race fans. If Kevin Miller carried through with his $10-12,000 engine that he proposed almost three years ago ( and those engines are available right now), we would have plenty of cars and races to go round for everybody. Right now we are continuing on the merry path to the destruction of midget racing as we all know it. And BTW, don't get pie-eyed over the number of midgets that will show up in FantasyLand at Tulsa, Oklahoma. That race has absolutely nothing to do with the current state of midget racing. If anything that race is part of the problem of the overall climate of midget racing. ... people spending their entire racing budget on a race that they could never win.
Don Moore
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